Posted on 02/05/2022 11:18:43 AM PST by lightman
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Friday it’s expanding a wastewater surveillance program to enhance efforts to track COVID-19 infections across the United States.
“Go on, get the sewer jokes out of your system,” the CDC said in a note in October 2020, shortly after it first launched the scheme, called the National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS), which tracks SARS-CoV-2 virus levels in wastewater across 400 sites nationwide to better track the spread of COVID-19 in America.
SARS-CoV-2, also known as the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, is the pathogen that causes the disease COVID-19.
The CDC is now ramping up the NWSS program, announcing on Feb. 4 that it is expanding the network of sites where wastewater is tested for the CCP virus by an additional 250 locations.
“Estimates suggest between 40 and 80 percent of people with COVID-19 shed viral RNA in their feces, making wastewater and sewage an important opportunity for monitoring the spread of infection,” Dr. Amy Kirby, team lead for the NWSS, told reporters at Friday’s briefing.
Kirby said that the data from the surveillance scheme is “uniquely powerful” as it can capture the presence of infections from people with and without symptoms and so is an important tool to gauge COVID-19 prevalence.
“Because increases in wastewater generally occur before corresponding increases in clinical cases, wastewater surveillance serves as an early warning system for the emergence of COVID-19 in a community,” Kirby said.
What started as a small grassroots program by academic researchers has, over time, grown into a nationwide effort with over 34,000 samples collected representing some 53 million Americans.
With the expansion, “more communities will have the opportunity to use this tool to help guide their public health decision making,” Kirby said.
The CDC’s move garnered praise from some epidemiologists, with some calling for an even more robust scope for the scheme.
“Now that it seems @CDCgov (and Media) have fully woken up to the major benefits of wastewater surveillance (which we’ve known since early in the pandemic) … it’s a good time to ask” why the program isn’t being expanded to weekly testing in every one of the 3000-plus counties in the United States, epidemiologist Dr. Michael Mina said on Twitter.
“The entire National program could be performed—for a FULL YEAR—using about the same number of PCR tests that are performed every 3 days in one of the big PCR COVID testing labs today. The amount of $$ needed would be remarkably minuscule for nationwide surveillance,” Mina continued, adding that this could also be done for variant sequencing, in addition to estimating incidence and spread.
The way the NWSS program works is that wastewater, or sewage, is collected as it flows into a treatment plant. Samples are then sent to labs for testing, with health departments then submitting testing data to the CDC through the online NWSS Data Collation and Integration for Public Health Event Response portal, or DCIPHER.
The DCIPHER system analyzes the data and transmits the results back to the respective health departments, which use it to calibrate their COVID-19 response.
The results are also made available through the CDC’s COVID Data Tracker.
Chew on this:
Here is one more piecce of REAL science indicating that COVID—like cruise ship noroviruses—is spread primarily be fecal to oral transmission.
Let that sink in.
Remember about a year ago when there were a few quickly buried stories about communities in the New England states that were going to start testing sewerage for COVID?
Let that sink in.
Now consider this: In many States (California and NY for sure) the mask mandates are explicit that those in restaurants MUST wear a mask INTO THE RESTROOM where of course that cloth will absorb all toilet odors and other zhit.
Let that sink in.
Then the patron MUST wear the zhit laden mask back into the restaurant so that with every exhale the patrons innocently eating pancakes can get a dose of the restroom zhit.
Let that sink in.
Think this is an overactive imagination?
If mask mandates were truly about "health" there would be signage by restroom doors saying "remove and secure mask before entering" with a supply of ziploc bags for storing the mask.
But it was never about "health" from the git-go.
“Avoid a negative approach to life. Why gaze down the sewers when there is loveliness all around us? One may find some fault in even the greatest masterpieces of art, music, and literature. But isn’t it better to enjoy their charm and glory?”
— Paramahansa Yogananda, Secrets Of Lasting Happiness
They can have my wastewater when they suck it from my cold, nasty septic tank.
I dont want the govt spying on my poop ... good thing I live out in the country and I have a septic tank ...
Remember China was using anal swabs instead of nasal swabs?
Reminds me of that movie XD:
“You put this one in your nose and this one in your butt”
...
“NO, no, wait... you put THIS one in your nose and THIS one in your butt. Sorry about that.”
Not primarily. Not even close. We knew early in 2020 from the church choir practice and many other cases that it was spreading by air. There was no touching, there was distancing, and no masks in that case.
“Here is one more piecce of REAL science indicating that COVID—like cruise ship noroviruses—is spread primarily be fecal to oral transmission.”
This was how the polio virus was transmitted, but it is not how the SARS/Covid-type viruses are transmitted. However, people infected with Covid-19 shed the virus through their feces, and that is how the wastewater surveillance programs operate as an early detector of the prevalence of the virus.
Instead of face masks there should be ass masks. If you are an alien visiting a planet and you want to study a life form, anal probing will divulge diet, diseases, where you've been, your relatives, cultural practices, good viruses, bad viruses, bacteria, parasites, etc.....
If you want to be in the know, you need to be in the butt.
Except for one tiny town, there is nothing but individual septic tanks in this rural county-and we don’t let strangers on our places uninvited...
This ends with daily anal swabs.
turd fondlers
Wormwood.
Let that sink in.
bkmk
Same.
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